The North Texas Community College Consortium Research and Institutional Effectiveness Committee presents
10th Annual Outcomes and Assessment Conference
MOVING FROM PROVING TO IMPROVING
8 to 9am — Registration (Hallway) and Breakfast (Section C)
9 to 10:30 am — General Session I (Section C)
Welcome: Christine Hubbard, President, North Texas Community College Consortium
Overview of the Day: Chris Daley, Coordinator of Institutional Research, Trinity Valley
Community College; Chair, Research and Institutional Effectiveness Committee
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker:
Teresa Isbell, Dean, Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness, El Centro College
Keynote Address:
October 16, 2015
Collin College
Spring Creek Campus
Living Legends
Conference Center
The Degree Qualifications Profile and
Tuning in Action
Paul Gaston, Trustees Professor, Kent State University; Co-Author,
Degree Qualifications Profile; Consultant, Lumina Foundation
10:30 to 10:45 am — Break
2800 E. Spring Creek Pkwy
Plano, TX 75074
10:45 to 11:35 am — Breakout Sessions: Round 1
11:45 am to 1 pm — Lunch and General Session II (Section C)
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker:
Karen Laljiani, Associate Vice President of Planning, Research, and Institutional
Development, Cedar Valley College; Chair, Professional Development Subcommittee,
Research and Institutional Effectiveness Committee
Keynote Address:
North Texas Community
College Consortium
1155 Union Circle #310800
Denton, Texas 76203
LEAPing Forward in Instructional
Assessment
Karla Guilford-Shipp, Instructor, Humanities Department, Tidewater
Community College
940.565.4035
http://ntccc.unt.edu/
ntccc@unt.edu
1:10 to 2 pm — Breakout Sessions: Round 2
2:10 to 3 pm — Breakout Sessions: Round 3
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Conference Speakers
Cedar Valley College
10th Annual Outcomes and Assessment Conference
MOVING FROM PROVING TO IMPROVING
Karen Laljiani, Associate Vice President,
Planning, Research, and Institutional
Effectiveness
Collin College
Kathleen Fenton, Associate Dean,
Institutional Effectiveness
Tom Martin, Associate Vice President,
Institutional Research
Breakout Sessions: Round 1 — 10:45 to 11:35 am
#1—Degree Qualifications Profile and Tuning in Action Keynote Q&A
Room: Section C
Paul Gaston, Trustees Professor, Kent State University; Co-Author, Degree Qualifications Profile;
Consultant, Lumina Foundation
Continue the Degree Qualifications Profile and Tuning conversation in this open forum Q&A session.
Eastfield College
Maria Caratini-Prado, Director of
Professional Development
Christa Jones, Director of Workforce
Education
Tricia Thomas-Anderson, Dean of
Resource Development
El Centro College
Teresa Isbell, Dean, Planning Research,
and Institutional Effectiveness
Kent State University
Paul Gaston, Trustees Professor;
Consultant, Lumina Foundation
North Lake College
Yolanda Columbus, Associate Dean
Kent Seaver, Director, Learning Resources
North Texas Community
College Consortium
Christine Hubbard, President
Richland College
Guyla Blaylock, Senior Research Analyst
Cameron Maynard, Tutor Coordinator and
English Instructor
Clive Siegle, Professor, US History
Justine White, English Corner Coordinator
and English Instructor
#2—Speak Up! Oral Histories as the Ultimate Assessment Venue?
Room: Section B
Clive Siegle, Professor, US History, Richland College
Is a picture worth a thousand words? Richland College’s oral history projects deliver them all and more:
words, photographs, picture images in the mind’s eye—and a powerful, versatile assessment vehicle
with applications across the breadth of the Humanities to boot!
#3—Building a Plane in Flight: Piloting Core Assessment at TWU
Room: Section D
Gray Scott, Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Composition, Texas Woman’s University; with
Terry Senne, Director, Academic Assessment, Texas Woman’s University; and Mark Hammer, Assistant
Provost for Institutional Improvement and Data Management, Texas Woman’s University
To encourage a campus culture of assessment, Texas Woman’s University recruited volunteers from
faculty, staff, alumni, and students (undergraduate and graduate) to rate core artifacts, while framing a
Spring 2015 pilot as an assessment-of-the-assessment rather than as assessment-of-students.
Drawing on survey and rater data, this talk highlights lessons learned.
#4—What Drives Assessment? What’s Best for Students? Can Technology Help?
Room: Section E
Ronald Carriveau, Assessment and Measurement Specialist, Assistant QEP Director, CLEAR—Center for
Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign, University of North Texas; with Michael Simmons,
Senior Associate Director, CLEAR—Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign,
University of North Texas
What drives assessment—faculty needs, institutional needs, and student needs? In higher education
we are often confused about how to prioritize and meet these needs. By focusing on student needs and
using an outcomes-based approach with enabling technology, multiple needs can be addressed.
#5—Credit By Exam: Assessment That is Truly Aligned
Room: BB 132
Kent Seaver, Director, Learning Resources, North Lake College
This presentation will focus on the use of Credit By Exam (CBE) assessments and how they are being
successfully used in the K-12, as well as home school, curriculum. A compare and contrast approach
will be used to illustrate that CBE’s are successful methods to ensure student and academic success.
Tarrant County College
Ernie Gines, Assistant Professor of
Computer Science, Southeast Campus
Texas Woman’s University
Mark Hammer, Assistant Provost for
Institutional Improvement and Data
Management
Gray Scott, Assistant Professor and
Director of First-Year Composition
Terry Senne, Director, Academic
Assessment
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Conference Speakers
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MOVING FROM PROVING TO IMPROVING
Tidewater Community College
Karla Guilford-Shipp, Instructor,
Humanities Department
Trinity Valley Community
College
Chris Daley, Coordinator of Institutional
Research
University of North Texas
Sian Brannon, Assistant Dean for Collection
Management, University of North Texas
Libraries
Ronald Carriveau, Assessment and
Measurement Specialist, Assistant QEP
Director, CLEAR—Center for Learning
Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign
Michael Simmons, Senior Associate
Director, CLEAR—Center for Learning
Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign
Jason Simon, Associate Vice Provost,
Institutional Research and Effectiveness
Barbara Stone, Graduate Assistant to the
Core Curriculum
Jeanne Tunks, Director of the Core
Elizabeth Vogt, Director of IE
NTCCC Research and
Institutional
Effectiveness
Committee
Cedar Valley College
Karen Laljiani, Associate Vice President,
Planning, Research, and Institutional
Effectiveness; Professional Development
Chair, Research and Institutional
Effectiveness Committee
Cisco College
Joe Carter, Executive Director, Institutional
Research
Collin College
Kathleen Fenton, Associate Dean,
Institutional Effectiveness
Tom Martin, Associate Vice President,
Institutional Research
Breakout Sessions: Round 2—1:10 to 2 pm
#6—LEAPing Forward in Instructional Assessment Keynote Q&A
Room: Section C
Karla Guilford-Shipp, Instructor, Humanities Department, Tidewater Community College
Continue the LEAP instructional assessment conversation in this open forum Q&A session.
#7—Assessing the Flip Side: Assessing an Academic Skills Center
Room: Section A
Yolanda Columbus, Associate Dean, North Lake College
Some student services such as academic support areas grew organically. They were a direct response
to an institution's commitment and students' needs. In today's era of ever-shrinking resources and everincreasing expectations, these units are now expected to report outcomes and demonstrate impact.
This session describes how we addressed this challenge.
#8—How to Design Effective Assessments for Small Departments
Room: Section B
Guyla Blaylock, Senior Research Analyst, Richland College
Staff in small departments often feel overwhelmed before adding assessment to their duties. This
presentation will provide introductory assessment information as well as tips to effectively and efficiently
conduct assessments in departments with 1-3 staff members.
#9—Moving a Culture of Audit to a Culture of Effectiveness
Room: Section D
Jason Simon, Associate Vice Provost, Institutional Research and Effectiveness, University of North Texas;
with Elizabeth Vogt, Director of IE, University of North Texas
IE staff may find their administrative and non-academic departments collect a great deal of audit data
and very little data that can be used for effective improvement. This is challenging for staff who may not
operate within this paradigm. Learn how IE staff leveraged this challenge and transformed it.
#10—Service Unit Assessment and Continuous Improvement Planning: A Step-by-Step
Guide
Room: Section E
Kathleen Fenton, Associate Dean, Institutional Effectiveness, Collin College
This presentation can help lead unit administrators and staff out of the maze and mental haze
surrounding Assessment and Continuous Improvement Planning for student and business service units
with a step-by-step guide and customer satisfaction surveys. The planning/assessment cycle meets
units' management needs as well as SACSCOC requirements.
#11—What Have Graduates Learned? A Completer Survey for Community Colleges
Room: BB 132
Tom Martin, Associate Vice President, Institutional Research, Collin College; with Karen Laljiani, Associate
Vice President, Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness, Cedar Valley College
There are multiple exit points in education. DQP outlines learning at an Associate's Degree level.
THECB learning objectives are for students in the Core. SCANS includes skills and competencies for
CTE Certificates. A subcommittee of the North Texas Community College Consortium Research and
Institutional Effectiveness Committee incorporated these elements into a graduate survey that's being
piloted in some Consortium colleges.
Nasreen Ahmed , Assistant Director,
Institutional Research
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NTCCC Research and
Institutional
Effectiveness
Committee
(Continued)
El Centro College
Teresa Isbell, Dean, Planning, Research,
and Institutional Effectiveness
Richland College
Bao Huynh, Director, Institutional
Effectiveness
Rick Leyva, Director, Institutional Research;
Immediate Past Chair, Research and
Institutional Effectiveness Committee
Tarrant County College
Marlon Mote, Director, Instructional
Assessment; Chair-Elect, Research and
Institutional Effectiveness Committee
Texas State Technical
College-Marshall
Afton Barber, Executive Director,
Institutional Effectiveness, Research, and
Organizational Development
Trinity Valley Community
College
Chris Daley, Coordinator of Institutional
Research; Chair, NTCCC Research and
Institutional Effectiveness Committee
Tina Rummel, Director, Strategic Planning
Event Sponsors
10th Annual Outcomes and Assessment Conference
MOVING FROM PROVING TO IMPROVING
Breakout Sessions: Round 3—2:10 to 3 pm
#12—The English Corner: Faculty-Led Tutoring for Increased Passing and Retention
Room: Section A
Justine White, English Corner Coordinator and English Instructor, Richland College; with Cameron Maynard,
Tutor Coordinator and English Instructor, Richland College
The English Corner at Richland College is a faculty-led tutoring center initiated to increase retention and
passing rates in English. We went from a small voluntary program to fully-supported and departmentalwide. Assessment and data has proven the necessity of it. Our results can be replicated with any
department and budget.
#13—ITSC 1425 PC Hardware Assessment Models
Room: Section B
Ernie Gines, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Tarrant County College Southeast Campus
Using one of the Technical Foundation Courses, ITSC 1425 PC Hardware, which is required for all the
Associate of Applied Science Technical Programs, an assessment model was created which reflects an
increase in student success and retention rate. This assessment model consists of two assessment
tools—pre and post-assessment exams and Hardware Troubleshooting Skills Exam—in order to truly
prove that student learning is taking place. This is a controlled model designed to compare E-Connect
courses with Face2Face courses using the similar structured model. Within this presentation, four
semesters will be showcased to illustrate how assessments are used in current settings as tools for
improved retention and success. This presentation also shares challenges and recommendations
based on the results of the data presented.
#14—Texas Core—Commonalities and Unique Characteristics Across Texas Colleges
Room: Section D
Kathleen Fenton, Associate Dean, Institutional Effectiveness, Collin College
This presentation characterizes the commonalities and unique characteristics of the 2014 core
curriculum and its assessment as implemented in Texas public institutions of higher education.
#15—Blackboard: A Useful Tool for Communal Core Assessment
Room: Section E
Jeanne Tunks, Director of the Core, University of North Texas; with Barbara Stone, Graduate Assistant to
the Core Curriculum, University of North Texas
This session will provide participants with a description and demonstration of how Blackboard Learn
was used at the University of North Texas to assess the core curriculum during communal scoring
process.
#16—PLA Portal: Using Technology and Training to Improve PLA Strategies
The ETS HiSET® program, a
national high school equivalency
test, includes elements critical to
providing out-of-school youth
and adults with the best
opportunity to demonstrate their
high school-level proficiency and
their readiness for higher
education or the workplace.
Room: BB 132
Tricia Thomas-Anderson, Dean of Resource Development, Eastfield College; with Maria Caratini-Prado,
Director of Professional Development, Eastfield College; and Christa Jones, Director of Workforce
Education, Eastfield College
The PLA Portal Project is a statewide initiative designed to address the need for professional
development of higher education personnel in the assessment of prior learning. This session will
introduce participants to innovative uses of technology and training opportunities available through the
project to create or improve institutions’ PLA processes.
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Event Sponsors
Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation
committed to increasing the
proportion of Americans with
high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to
60 percent by 2025. Lumina’s
outcomes-based approach
focuses on helping to design
and build an accessible,
responsive and accountable
higher education system while
fostering a national sense of
urgency for action to achieve
Goal 2025.
10th Annual Outcomes and Assessment Conference
MOVING FROM PROVING TO IMPROVING
Post-Conference Committee Meetings—3 to 4 pm
North Texas Community College Consortium Research and Institutional Effectiveness
Committee Meeting
Room: BB 107
Chris Daley, Coordinator of Institutional Research, Trinity Valley Community College; Chair, Research and
Institutional Effectiveness Committee
Committee members only.
PLA Portal Planning and Implementation Team Meeting
Room: BB 132
Tricia Thomas-Anderson, Dean of Resource Development, Eastfield College; PLA Portal Grant Manager
Planning and implementation team members only.
Breakout Session Overview
Section C
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
10:45 to 11:35 am
1:10 to 2 pm
2:10 to 3 pm
Degree Qualifications
Profile and Tuning in
Action Keynote Q&A
Section A
LEAPing Forward in Instructional
Assessment Keynote Q&A
Assessing the Flip Side:
Assessing an Academic Skills
Center
The English Corner: Faculty-Led
Tutoring for Increased Passing
and Retention
Section B
Speak Up! Oral Histories as How to Design Effective
the Ultimate Assessment
Assessments for Small
Venue?
Departments
ITSC 1425 PC Hardware
Assessment Models
Section D
Building a Plane in Flight:
Moving a Culture of Audit to a
Piloting Core Assessment at Culture of Effectiveness
TWU
Texas Core—Commonalities and
Unique Characteristics Across
Texas Colleges
Section E
What Drives Assessment?
What’s Best for Students?
Can Technology Help?
Service Unit Assessment and
Continuous Improvement
Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide
Blackboard: A Useful Tool for
Communal Core Assessment
BB 132
Credit By Exam:
Assessment That is Truly
Aligned
What Have Graduates Learned?
A Completer Survey for
Community Colleges
PLA Portal: Using Technology
and Training to Improve PLA
Strategies
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